Weekly Music Picks: It’s Raining, It’s Pouring Edition

We can’t think much about all the fun outdoor concerts that are in store for the rest of the summer with all the rain we’ve been getting. Hours and hours of inches and inches of rain make us in the mood for some grilled cheese and tomato soup. When we’re done with the homey, comfy meal, we’re off to catch some music – the only other thing besides a good dose of cheese that can lift our spirits. This week we’re locking our picks in early and keeping an optimistic eye open to the weekend for sunshine to come.

Monday 5/15
His Name Is Alive
Michigan's finest have just released their sweetest album in years and, tonight, they embark upon their first real tour in a decade. The self-identified "mystical-sound-art-beast" promises sing-alongs and "home-made electric thumb pianos."
TT the Bear's
18+, 9 pm, $10
HNIA: myspace | web site | purchase (who doesn't want an electric pinecone?) | Get Your Curse On (Summer Left Your Heart Behind) .mp3 | I'll Send My Face To Your Funeral .mp3

Coldcut with Blockhead & DJ Signify
DJs Jonathan More and Matt Black, aka Coldcut, have been at the forefront of the UK breakbeat, experimental hip hop, and underground elcectronica scene since they dropped Ofra Haza's vocals into their landmark 1987 remix of Eric B and Rakim's "Paid in Full." And their new album Sound Mirrors has the press gushing about a return to cutting edge form. Join the two man wrecking crew as they celebrate the 10th birthday of their indie label Ninja Tunes (Kid Koala, Herbaliser, Amon Tobin) and more recent imprint Big Dada (Roots Manuva, Spank Rock). With Blockhead and DJ Signify.
Paradise Rock Club
18+, $20, 8PM
website | myspace | ninja tunes | True Skool (feat. Roots Manuva).mp3 (edit) | Paid In Full (Coldcut Remix).mp3 (edit)

Stephen Drury
Tonight, Boston's most energetic pianist brings Etudes by John Cage and Claude Debussy to the New England Conservatory. Also on the programme is the latter composer's ever-charming Clair de Lune.
Jordan Hall
8 p.m.; free and non-ticketed
New England Conservatory: website
Stephen Drury in leather pants: website

Tuesday 5/16
Fluttr Effect Trio, Lifestyle
The lady parts of Fluttr Effect, followed by certain boy parts of Freezepop.
Abbey Lounge
18+, 9:45 pm, $7
Fluttr Effect: myspace | ladies of Fluttr Effect in the Phoenix | Swallows & Sparrows .mp3
Lifestyle: myspace | web site | My Favorite Song .mp3

Wednesday 5/17
The Stanton Moore Trio
Steamroller funk band Galactic founder Stanton Moore continues to expand the New Orleans tradition with projects like the New Orleans Klezmer All Stars. Hear Moore pound the funk out out his drums with his "groove-driven, jazz-informed, and stylistically eclectic" organ trio featuring David Torkanowsky (Hammond B3) and Cranston Clements (guitar).
Regattabar
$20, 7:30PM
website | tang the hump.ram | "Sprung Monkey"
YouTube live video | purchase

Thursday 5/18
SunnO)))
It's pronounced "Sun," and they perform wearing hooded cloaks. This avant-drone doom metal band's reputation largely rests on producing bass lower than you can hear but heavy enough that you can feel it, and it feels evil.
Middle East Downstairs
18+, 8pm, $12
SunnO))): web site | Stephen O'Malley | wikipedia

Zakir Hussain & Masters of Indian Percussion
"Widely considered a chief architect of the contemporary world music movement," tabla master Zakir Hussain co-founded Shakti with Shankar and John McLaughlin and has performed or recorded with the likes of George Harrison, Van Morrison, Tito Puente, Pharoah Sanders, the Diga Rhythm Band, and Micky Hart's Planet Drum. Catch Hussain perform with the best of India's classical and folk percussionists.
Berklee Performance Center
$30 - $65, 7:30PM
website | wikipedia | Moment! Records | purchase

Randy Weston's African Rhythms Trio 80th B-day Celebration (also Fri)
As All About Jazz notes, "no musician has been more devoted to exploring the connection between [jazz] and the ancestral spirits and rhythms of the African continent than Randy Weston." Join the celebration of this legendary pianist's 80th birthday. With Alex Blake (bass) and Neil Clarke (drums).
Regattabar
$24, 7:30PM and 10PM
website | purchase

Saturday, May 20 and Sunday, May 21
Convivium Musicum
As hyped last week, this Renaissance choir is something special. If you've never experienced sixteenth-century music in concert, go for a revelation of harmony and color; if these works of Victoria, Vivanco and other Spanish composers are old favorites, go to hear them performed with astonishing power and beauty.
University Lutheran Church in Cambridge on Saturday at 8, St. Paul's
Episcopal Church in Brookline on Sunday at 7
$15, $8
Convivium Musicum: website
Everything you need to know about Tomás Luis de Victoria: website

Matt Durutti, C. Fernsebner, and Christina Linklater contributed to this list